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Course Information

AP Lang students, our class documents--worksheets, essays, and other handouts--will all be stored in this Google Drive folder or in our shared Google Class folder. If you are absent, you will find any documents you've missed here. Homework may be assigned this way as well. (Your night's homework might be stored in this folder for you to access on your own.)


If you don't have one already, you need to start depending on Google Drive. If you already have a gmail account, you've already got one. If you don't, it is free and easy to do so. (You don't even need to create a gmail account, if you'd prefer not to.) Google Drive acts as a complete office suite and storage solution. It makes it easy to collaborate and share documents with your peers and teachers. It also makes it unnecessary to use flash drives or email attachments to bring your assignments to school. Everything is saved to the cloud. 

If you don't have a Google account, follow the instructions here to sign up. 





   


Links & Resources

  • Vocab list -- for Monday quizzes
  • Ning -- our class blog
  • Graff Template (Single)
  • Syllabus
  • AP Score Calculator
  • Tips for an Effective Rhetorical Analysis
  • 80 Key AP Exam Terms (Norquist)
  • AP College Board Info
  • Logical Fallacies (Purdue OWL)
  • Logical Fallacies (CalState)
  • Logical Fallacies (Nizkor Project)
  • Logical Fallacies (UNC)
  • Rhetorical Terms (Univ. Kentucky)
  • Rhetorical Terms (Virtual Salt)
Grammar & Style

  • Grammar Girl
  • Lynch Guide to Grammar & Style
  • Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
  • Strunk Elements of Style
  • W. W. Norton Usage Glossary
Recommended Reading

  • 101 Recommended Books (College Board)
  • 100 Best Young Adult Fiction (NPR)
  • 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
  • 100 Best NonFiction (Modern Library)
  • Conestoga LitMag
  • Goodreads.com
More AP Test prep documents
AP Prep-- "What you know" template 
Test and answers to MC sample test (starts with Dickens excerpt)
Test and answer to MC sample test (starts with "It is not easy...")
Vocab Quizlet (brought to you by Chris Doms!)
They Say, I Say (synthesis templates)

AP Test Prep
For Rhetorical Essay prompts
A simple list of rhetorical strategies
For Argument and Synthesis Essay prompts
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